O'Brien column denied facts about climate change: Letter

Greenwich Township Broad Street Elementary School kindergarten students plant marigolds in front of the school as part of their week-long celebration of Earth Day on Wednesday, April 17, 2013. (Staff Photo by Britney Lillya/South Jersey Times)

To the Editor:

Concerning Kevin O’Brien’s April 5 column, “Since we’re all gonna die anyway...,” in which the writer whines about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s warnings of the effects of global warming:

I’ve sat through the fluff pieces on ghost hunters and Katherine Lopez’s weekly column about why abortion should be illegal, but publishing articles written by climate change deniers is irresponsible and potentially dangerous. I understand that people are free to have their own viewpoints, but more than 95 percent of people in a position to know agree that climate change is real and that humans are causing it.

Columns like O’Brien’s confuse people into thinking that there is a real debate on the subject. There is not.

If O’Brien wishes to be willfully ignorant on the subject, that’s his right, but the public deserves better information than someone just shooting off at the mouth about something they know nothing about.